These days, it’s crucial that you take good care of your company, as you probably already know. However, many businesses these days still don’t take the necessary steps that they need to to keep up to speed when it comes to protecting themselves against cyberattacks. We’ve discussed employee security training in previous posts, and now we will dig a little deeper so you can keep your business safe.
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Are You Keeping Up to Par with Your Cybersecurity?
While many companies think that they are, the truth is (and we mean no disrespect to anyone by this) you’re probably not. When it comes to cybersecurity, you never stop learning. This is huge because as technology emerges and constantly evolves, so do the dangers of cyber attackers. They’re always learning new methods (and even old methods, such as software exploits) to develop new ways to get into business systems and steal information, data, and of course, the worst thing they can steal – money.
Some cyber attackers even go one step further to get their money from you by hijacking emails and conversations on the phone and even installing crypto-mining software on your computers at work. Do you know how you can stop this from happening? Two words, security training.
So, How Can I Be Sure I’m Up to Par?
First off, there are many things you can do to ensure that you’re keeping up to speed with your cybersecurity. Train your employees in cybersecurity methods (if you don’t know where to begin, we’ve got a post all about it as well). Once you train your employees, you can ensure that your systems are all set up with the top defense to thwart attackers.
Network Security
You must have the right network security. With the proper equipment and network security protocols, like advanced firewalls, you can ensure that you are taking the first step to increasing your company’s protection. This also goes with having state-of-the-art networking that your managed IT team can install for you.
Device Security
Don’t think that you’re safe just yet. Every single device needs to be able to be secured so that you can guarantee your company’s safety. This includes email protection and even antivirus software to protect your computers and stop hackers before they can connect to your systems. Securing your devices can ensure that you are protected even when your employees use them.
Employee Security Training and Monitoring
Sometimes you can’t just think that every employee will know they’re not doing anything that may cause a security breach. They may not mean to, but having security monitoring to see their every move can help trace cyberattacks to where and when they started if they happen so you can get it cleared up quickly.
Data Backup Services
A local service to provide complete data backups for your company is essential to your business security. You don’t want to keep all of your customer and company info-account data, confidential information, and even payroll info. You want to ensure that your company can get the full service of data backups regularly. And by them being locally owned and operated means that if there’s ever a problem, they can retrieve anything you’re looking for if you can’t find it rather than calling some helpdesk overseas.
Voice over Internet Protocol Phone Systems
The systems you choose are critical when it comes to security. Not only are VoIP systems extremely secure with the proper devices and cybersecurity practices, but you can also guarantee that you’ll save a lot more money. Having VoIP rather than using landlines and fiber is a win-win situation. It also helps in this current world where remote work is becoming a more viable option for employees.
Using the Right Managed Services Provider
When you look at everything you need, you’ll want an all-in-one technology solution rather than having to pay for every service separately. That’s where the right managed service provider comes into play. They’re very much different than IT departments and IT support technicians – they’re masters at being able to give you every one of these services – and often have packages to provide them to you so you can save at the same time.
Final Security Training Thoughts
If your systems are outdated, or you are still running old software and network systems in your business, then make sure you get up to speed. Employee security training is not just a one-off event. Employee security training should be done continuously throughout the year. For more info about our employee security training methods and to get the right cybersecurity solutions that your company needs, send us a message or give us a call.